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V -UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDWARD e. WARD, oE BROOKLYN, EW YORK.

BLACKING-BOX.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 224,313, dated February 10, 1880.

Application filed November 20, 1879.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, EDWARD G. WARD, of the city of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Blacking-Box; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description-thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and letters of reference marked thereon, forming a part of this specification, in which drawings- M Figure 1 is a plan view of my improved 7 blacking-box with its cover removed, and Fig.

2 is a vertical central section of the same with its cover inplace upon the body ofthe box.

The object of my invention is to provide the public with a blacking-box which shall not be liable to have its exterior surface danbed with thepolishing-paste during the process of blacking boots and shoes. i

The nature of my invention consists in providing a blacking-box with an interior receptacle for the boot andshoe paste or polish, and also with ac'hannel for overfiow-blacking, in such manner that the paste or blaoking will not be casually drawn out by the brush so as to soil the outside of theblacking-box during the act of blacking boots and shoes.

In the drawings, A indicates an ordinary full-sized blacking-box, made of tin andof circular form, as shown, and having abody portion, as signified at'b, and a cover, as at c. To the interior bottom portion,b, of this box I apply, by soldering or in any other suitable manner, a circular band of metal, d, preferably of less height and of less diameter than the .inclosing-wall of the body portion b of the box the receptacle B for the blackin g or paste, as-

shown, and into which channel the waste-paste will be drawn by the blacking-brush during the act of polishing boots and shoes, which under the ordinary construction of a blackingbox is casually drawn over and upon the exterior surface of the box, thus daubing and soiling the same and rendering the box disagreeable to handle. The channel 6 may also be'utilized to contain a small quantity of wa ter, the evaporation of which, when the box is closed with itscover 6 will moisten the black ing or paste, and thus prepare it for the blacking-brush when it is desired to polish a boot or shoe.

I am aware that a box having its upper stopple or cap end contracted into a conical form and provided with an elevated concave shelf of less'diameter than the body portion of the box has been devised for holding powdered substances. 7 Such box by being inverted causes a portion of its contents to be moved toward its center and above the shelf, and by being turned back to its original position causes said portion of the powder that was above the shelf to,deposit upon the shelf for use. My blacking-box has its inner'chamber adapted for storing the blacking paste or polish, and is also the chamber from which the stored paste or polish is used, the outer chamber or channel serving as an overfiowreceptacle from which the waste or overflow cannot'pass to the outside of the box. v

I amalso aware that a blacking-box has been clamped in a larger box called a holder also, thata box having a horizontal flange extending from its depressed holding-chamber has been contrived, such box having its horizontal-flange bounded by a vertical rim.

What I claim as my invcn tion is The blacking-box provided. with its usual outer rim and with an inner rim rising from its bottom, said inner rim being of less diameter than the outer rim, whereby a blacking-box is formed with a central receptacle for the blacking-paste and a channel outside said receptacle between the outer and inner rims, substantially as and for the purpose described.

EDWARD G. WARD.

In presence of- HARRIET. ADA VALENTINE, ELLEN A. MORIARTY. 

